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Title: | The Criminalization of the State in Africa |
Authors: | Bayart, Jean-François Ellis, Stephen Hibou, Béatrice |
Year: | 1999 |
Pages: | 126 |
Language: | English |
Series: | African issues |
City of publisher: | Oxford |
Publisher: | Currey |
ISBN: | 0852558139; 0253212863; 0253335248; 0852558120 |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa South Africa |
Subjects: | State political repression |
Abstract: | Fraud and smuggling on a major scale, the plundering of natural resources, the privatization of State institutions, the development of an economy of plunder, the growth of private arms - all of these features of public life in Africa suggest that the State itself is becoming a vehicle for organized criminal activity. This book analyses the criminalization of the State in Africa in the following chapters: From kleptocracy to the felonious State? (Jean-François Bayart, Stephen Ellis & Béatrice Hibou) - The 'social capital' of the felonious State (Jean-François Bayart) - The new frontiers of crime in South Africa (Stephen Ellis) - The 'social capital' of the State as an agent of deception (Béatrice Hibou) - Conclusion (Jean-François Bayart). |